Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too. — Penelope Leach Body Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not… — Penelope Leach Approval Copy Share Image
Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now… — Penelope Leach Destructive Copy Share Image
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun'… — Penelope Leach Art of living Copy Share Image
A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if… — Penelope Leach Baby Copy Share Image
Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless… — Penelope Leach Answers Copy Share Image
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. — Penelope Leach Changed Copy Share Image
Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler… — Penelope Leach Body Copy Share Image
A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases… — Penelope Leach Cease Copy Share Image
Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen… — Penelope Leach Be good Copy Share Image
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. — Penelope Leach Brave Copy Share Image
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the… — Penelope Leach Baby Copy Share Image
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the… — Penelope Leach Baby Copy Share Image
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have. — Penelope Leach Children Copy Share Image
Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a… — Penelope Leach Aging Copy Share Image
